'Dropped on nought': Gill reflects on missed Virat Kohli chance after GT defeat

Shubman Gill pointed to Gujarat Titans’ inability to adjacent retired cardinal phases successful the mediate overs and besides touched connected his opening concern aft GT’s five-wicket nonaccomplishment to Royal Challengers Bengaluru successful IPL 2026 astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium connected Friday.“Definitely. From the 16th to the 19th, (17th to 19th) those 3 overs, we couldn't get immoderate boundaries. Those overs were important for us. At the extremity of the Power-play, we were successful a bully situation. We needed to instrumentality wickets,” helium said. “I mean, erstwhile a batsman gets dropped connected nought, it's ever pugnacious connected the fielder. But it's astir however you travel backmost successful the game. We had our moments. But we weren't capable to deed the close lengths consistently, which was important.

But they batted precise good successful the mediate overs.”The dropped drawback helium referred to gave Virat Kohli a chance, and the RCB batter made afloat usage of it with 81 disconnected 44 balls.Alongside Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal scored 55 disconnected 27 balls, and the 2 added a beardown concern done the mediate overs to support RCB up successful the chase.Gill said determination was immoderate assistance successful the surface, particularly for Krunal Pandya. “When we were batting, the balls that Krunal bowled, it was gripping a bit.

I thought if we could get a fewer wickets, we would travel backmost successful the game.”GT had earlier posted 205/3, with Sai Sudharsan scoring 100 disconnected 58 balls and becoming the fastest to scope 2000 IPL runs. Gill and Jos Buttler besides contributed to the total.In the chase, GT had a little fightback erstwhile Rashid Khan and Manav Suthar dismissed Jitesh Sharma and Rajat Patidar successful speedy succession, but Krunal Pandya’s unbeaten 23 disconnected 12 balls, including a beardown 18th over, sealed the crippled for RCB.Gill besides spoke astir his opening concern and said: “He (Sudharsan) was rather upset with the mode helium got retired successful the erstwhile game. But successful the upcoming games, hopefully, helium gives maine immoderate much onslaught successful the Power-play.”Sudharsan faced astir of the balls successful the powerplay, playing 29 deliveries, portion Gill faced lone 7 astatine the apical of the order.